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Education and Employers
Research Digest - November 2020
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6th International Conference on Employer Engagement: Preparing Young People for the Future
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Publications
Using skills excellence to build back better
WorldSkills UK
The report is a collection of essays and case studies from partners of WorldSkills UK that speaks on what excellence in skills means.
The role of labour market information in guiding educational and occupational choices
Andrea-Rosalinde Hofer, Aleksandra Zhivkovikj & Roger Smyth
The paper draws on behavioural economics, to examine how learners access and use career guidance information and what the implications are for the effective design of public study and career websites that aim to support students choices.
The Equity Compass: A tool for supporting socially just practice
YESTEM Project UK Team
The report discusses the equity compass, a tool that can help users to adopt a social justice mindset when developing policy and practice.
Changing the field: A Bourdieusian analysis of educational practices that support equitable outcomes among minoritized youth on two informal science learning programs
Louise Archer, Spela Godec, Angela Calabrese Barton, Emily Dawson, Ada Mau & Uma Patel
The study employs a sociological Bourdieusian lens to explore how equitable youth outcomes might be supported through informal science learning (ISL).
Equity in informal science learning A practice-research brief
King's College London
The paper reports findings of an informal science learning (ILS) project among young people ages 11-14 from under-served and non-dominant communities in the UK and US.
Social Mobility Foundation
The report draws on the 2020 social mobility employer index survey of 199 employers from 17 sectors to identify seven key areas which drive social mobility in employer practice.
Global teaching inSights: A video study of teaching
OECD
The report discusses a study that has trialled new research methods to give a fairer and fuller account of the complexities and nuances of teaching in different classrooms.
Innovation in the time of Covid-19
Capucine Riom & Anna Valero
The report draws on a survey among UK businesses to shows that during the COVID-19 crisis firms adopted new technology and practices to transform firms for survival.
Changes in children and young people’s mental health symptoms from March to October 2020
Simona Skripkauskaite, Samantha Pearcey, Jasmine Raw, Adrienne Shum, Polly Waite & Cathy Creswell
The report presents findings on a study that surveyed parents and carers about their children's mental health symptoms when UK schools reopened for the academic year.
A contemporary approach to employable graduates Cardiff National Software Academy
Katherine Emms & Andrea Laczik
The report explores how the National Software Academy (NSA) has built employer engagement in the development and delivery of curriculum to make it timely and relevant to the workplace and delivers teaching that ensures graduates leave “work- ready”.
Notices
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Lessons from Lockdown: Challenging assumptions about schooling
The Edge Foundation
The relationship between early literacy and GCSE English attainment
Mike Treadaway, Dave Thomson, Natasha Plaister & Philip Nye
Claudia Hupkau, Barbara Petrongolo
How to make progress in career learning in schools
Tristram Hooley
Supporting military children in school
Louise Fetigan
Events
Emphasising employability in higher education - Lessons learnt- Register
December 2, 2020
The Edge Foundation
Where versus What: College Value-Added and Returns to Field of Study in Further Education - Register
2 December 2020
LSE Centre for Vocational Education Research
VIRTUAL EVENT: The age 17 survey: the Millennium Cohort Study-Register
3 December 2020
UCL Institute of Education
Seeding Change – the environment as a context for learning-Register
9 December 2020
The Edge Foundation
Management Practices in Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges-Register
December 16, 2020
LSE Centre for Vocational Education Research
Learning to talk, talking to learn: Reading Recovery national conference-Register
April 23 2020
UCL Institute of Education
Conference on an ecology of life and learning: 4th to 7th March 2021
ESREA – European Society for Research on the Education of Adults - Life History and Biography Network
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